Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.